Re: [OPE-L] Ch. 7 as starting point for reading Capital???

From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Wed Jun 20 2007 - 10:15:09 EDT


I do not have the copy of Capital with me. Therefore, I am relying on my
memory. I think it is in the preface to the first German edition. If not
there, then, it is in the afterword to the second German edition.
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Hi Dogan:

I also don't have a copy of _Capital_ with me, but I can say
categorically that Marx _NEVER_ recommended IN _Capital_ skipping the
first chapter.  Indeed, I think he makes precisely the _OPPOSITE_ point
in his "Preface to the French Edition" of Volume One in his remarks
about how a "beginning is difficult in all sciences".

In solidarity, Jerry
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Marx suggests skiping the first chapter, too, if it is difficult to
understand. But he does not say we can put it aside. I think it is the key
chapter to understand Capital.






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